Yesterday we looked at the standard Polish service rifle, the wz.96 Beryl. Today we have the carbine version, the Mini-Beryl. Specifically, we have an early example, predating several of the mid-life improvements that were made by the time the first major contract for the Mini-Beryl was placed.
Machine pistol
Polish PM63 Rak at the Range
Whether it is described as a machine pistol, a submachine gun, or a personal defense weapon, the PM63 Rak is really not the best examples of this sort of thing to actually shoot. The open-bolt/slide […]
Select-fire Rifles
wz.96 Beryl: Poland’s 5.56mm Military AK
With Poland’s entry into NATO in the 1990s, a new service rifles was needed, chambered for the 5.56mm NATO cartridge. Initial development work had been done in 1990/91 to adapt the wz.88 Tantal to 5.56mm, […]
Submachine Guns
Błyskawica: The Polish Home Army’s Clandestine SMG
The Blyskawica (“LIghtning”) is an SMG developed in occupied Poland to be issued out to Home Army units during Operation Tempest; the liberation uprisings planned for the advance of the Red Army into Poland. The […]
You mentioned that this carbine came from Radam. Is this the same factory that produced the P-35?
Great video, keep up the great work.
Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FB_%22Łucznik%22_Radom
Thank you, I own a VIS P-35 that my father in law carried home after WW-2. It is a great handgun and shoots great.
“(…)Radam. Is this the same factory that produced the P-35(…)”
It is RADOM as can be seen at Pistole 35(p) specimens, for example https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radom_(6825677274).jpg
Uhm… something wrong happened to link I post, copy and paste into browser address bar to see photo.
Thanks DAWEO,
I have owned a VIS P-35 for close to 50 years. My Father-in-law brought it back from WW-2. When he first showed it to me, I just thought of it as an inferior copy of a 1911. Man was I wrong. It is totally reliable and shoots great. I probably haven’t shot it in over 20 years, but I still get it out once and a while and clean it and remember my Father-in-law. It has the original holster and extra magazine.
I can see pretty good fit and finish. Apparently Polish industry updated its mfg. machinery park by that time.
I think the Polish AKMs fit and finnish has been better than most except maybe the East Germans. Theses currently look top notch. https://www.wbprogow.com/
“Jack’s Rifles” look really good – respect. Thanks for showing.
“Apparently Polish industry updated its mfg. machinery park by that time.”(C)
Since what year, 1968?
Polish AKMs were still more carefully crafted than the original back then.
https://image.ibb.co/gFOkOk/IMG_9133.jpg
https://ww2.ru/upload/iblock/da6/may11-024.jpg
And now. 😉
Ian, sorry to correct you, but this is not “double-you-zee”
Polish ‘wz’ sounds like ‘voo-zet’
(I know it’s strange, but that’s how it sounds)
ppor. turpin